This page includes New Mexico views while motoring across the interstate highways and from Capulin Volcano National Monument.
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Motoring across Interstate 40 - New Mexico
April 2004

The mountain backdrop of Albuquerque
[The pavement of a multilane road is in the foreground with houses and trees in the middle ground. In the background are snow-capped mountains with green tree-covered sections. There are lots of puffy clouds in the sky.]

Beautiful mesa along I-40
[In the far distance on the left are some snow-capped mountains. In the foreground are homes built along flat ground with little vegetation around. In the mid-distance is a tall mesa with some green shrubbery growing at lower levels giving dots of color to the light brown ground and rock. One edge of the mesa is in the middle of the image is a sloping section from the ground to the top.]

Continental Divide, New Mexico is approximately 50 miles from the New Mexico-Arizona border. All water to the west of it flows to the Pacific Ocean while all water east of it flows to the Atlantic Ocean.
[A large white sign supported by a post on either end is several feet above the ground. There are red mesa-like symbols around the border of the sign and a Native American dancer symbol at each end. The sign says, 'Continental Divide Elevation 7,275 feet. Rainfall divides at this point. West drains into the Pacific. East drains into the Atlantic.' There are outlines of feather symbols on the posts.]

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Motoring across Interstate 10 - New Mexico
November 12, 2012

View from rest stop east of Akela Flats
[A long expanse of pavement meets the horizon where a blue haze covers distant mountains. White streaks of clouds stream across the sky while the sun flashes light onto the scene.]

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Capulin Volcano National Monument - Capulin, New Mexico
The volcano erupted approximately 60,000 years ago.
May 28, 2009

Tree growing in lava rock.
[Tree atop a lava rock on the prairie.]

Looking into collapsed cone of the dormant volcano. (rim parking lot with vehicles on it near top center)
[Depression in mountain top with path leading down into center.]

View of surrounding high plains from rim of volcano (Volcano rim is nearly 2,000 feet above the plains.)
[Multiple photos stitched together creating a vista of the plains 2000 feet below the volcano rim. There are mountains in the distance and many puffy white clouds in the sky which provide shadow on certain sections of the plains.]

View of trees on surrounding high plains
[Many small dark green circles on light brown ground.]

Another view from the volcano rim
[Mountains in distance skyline with tree dots on nearby plains.]

And another view from the rim
[Mountains in distance skyline with puffy white clouds above and tree dots on nearby plains along with a white ribbon that appears to be a defined road.]

'Time Stains' are lichen colonies up to 20,000 years old.
[Silvery coating mixed with some brownish coating on the rocks.]

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All photos © S. M. Garver